Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result was a drab series of social-realist novels with such command-economy titles as his 1935 potboiler. Without Stopping for Breath. Then Ehrenburg reported the Spanish Civil War for Izvestia in vivid prose that made him Russia's leading journalist...
Modern sculpture itself made it in evitable. Alexander Calder's vivid mo biles were meant to jiggle and gyrate under the leaves, George Rickey's feathery kinetics to stir in the breeze. To be sure, bronze and marble for centuries have gained in luster and patina from exposure to the weather, but a whole new range of materials, notably stain less steel and plastics, practically demand the reflective brilliance of sun shine. "Aluminum shines wonderfully against the greens of summer and the greys of winter," observes New York Collector Robert Scull...
...readers are willing to unravel yards of obscuring verbiage, they will find flashes of vivid comic writing-and a sometimes gripping Field & Stream hunting yarn told in what Mailer fondly believes to be the accents of Ernest Hemingway. Unhappily, Mailer is not only politically naive; even his doggedly filthy language is grade-B graffiti...
...proceedings. At one point he asked for a brief delay "so I can collect my thoughts. I just can't pop up and say da-da-da-da-da-da." Next day he added: "I don't know from nothing. What I got is a vivid imagination. The moral to all this, brother-in-law, is keep your big mouth shut." Which he may now have to do when Garrison brings Shaw to trial. Convicted perjurers make poor witnesses...
SIGNS AND WONDERS, by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Hero Nicholas Leclusier decides that life is really not worth living, which is somewhat difficult to understand, since Author Mallet-Joris has surrounded him with a collection of vivid people and a fascinating picture of France at the end of the bitter, bloody Algerian...